A crazy Halloween "Choose Your Own Adventure" story,

October 30, 2001 1:29 PM

A crazy Halloween "Choose Your Own Adventure" story, only it's not quite as "tame" as the original CYOA books by Edward Packard. In fact, every choice you make in this on-line book could lead to your death. Good Luck!
posted by kingmissile (14 comments total)

I miss Onion links.
posted by Kafkaesque at 1:55 PM on October 30, 2001

How about a Brunching Shuttlecocks link instead?
Choose Your Own Damn Pokemon Adventure
posted by marknau at 1:59 PM on October 30, 2001

ahhh, Lore.

Much better. Actually, anything that doesn't start out with your mom dead in a puddle of her own sick would probably be better.
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:05 PM on October 30, 2001

What a fantastic piece of crap that is. Couldn't even get to the first option.
posted by Doug at 3:34 PM on October 30, 2001

Jerk your Own Adventure
posted by cps at 3:51 PM on October 30, 2001

Brunching also offers up Choose Your Own Damn Harry Potter Adventure
posted by cps at 4:04 PM on October 30, 2001

Aaaaugh!
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:29 PM on October 30, 2001

actually, I remember being genuinely terrified by a CYOA when I was about 9 or 10. it was a haunted house, and there were a number of choices you could make that would lead to being trapped, instantly killed, etc. I had terrible nightmares.
posted by epersonae at 4:48 PM on October 30, 2001

I recall the "Journey Under The Sea" one where I think I both drowned and got killed by an eel or a shark. Good times, good times.
posted by kingmissile at 7:27 PM on October 30, 2001

I seem to remember there were some rather unsettling ways to die in "The Third Planet From Altair" and "The Cave of Time".

Edward Packard rules. CYOA books by anyone else were invariably lame.
posted by jjg at 9:49 PM on October 30, 2001

Didn't he write all of the first twenty or so? He had some silly pseudonym like D.Terman or something.

I used to love The Mystery of the Maya...and I think that creepy one was The House On Chimney Rock. Oh and UFO 54 or something was a favorite too.
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:31 PM on October 30, 2001

Mystery of the Maya! Now it's coming back to me! I think those CYOAs is what got me into computer adventures, and from there the glories of System Shock. Alas, nothing since has beat it.
posted by cps at 11:38 PM on October 30, 2001

i read 'deadwood city' after seeing it on reading rainbow. it was the only book reading rainbow's ever gotten me to read; (they tell you about the whole damn book most of the time.)
posted by elle at 4:01 AM on October 31, 2001

omigod! Kafkaesque! yes, it was The House on Chimney Rock. I say that phrase, and reading about my own death, while sitting in an unfinished basement surrowned by my dead father's books, me & my sisters' dollhouses, and plastic bins full of legos...it all comes back so clearly.

okay, now *that* reads like the beginning of a halloween tale.
posted by epersonae at 10:18 PM on October 31, 2001